Jiang Zemin Quotes

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

The number one priority of President Trump is to rebuild our military, to restore the arsenal of democracy.

I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels.

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

What's the point of having this superb military your always talking about if we can’t use it?

The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.

A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.

I don't think the U.S. military is conservative. It's pragmatic.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

In the face of a rising China, along with authoritarian regimes from Brazil to the Philippines to Turkey to Russia, and the constant presence of belligerent non-state actors, we need to reform our military to deal with asymmetrical threats.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

We will be substantially upgrading all of our military - all of our military. Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And hopefully, we'll never have to use it. But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.

Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed the deterioration of the U.S. military in the past eight years and explained how he's going to rebuild it and why we need to, and it's a very tough audience. It's an expressly military audience, and they are of course listening for any sign that he's not really genuine here. I think, knocking this out of the park as far as that audience is concerned.

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.